Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-01-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Thsddeus Stevens estate, just set
tied, foots up S27 600.
There begins to be dust at the bot
tom OF Cape May wells.
Mile Rhea has n gown made by
Worth, which cost 1000.
Water Is five cents a barrel at
Womelsdorf, BeTks county.
The Liberty statue would make
nice design for au ear ring.
The SandUsky carp hatchery has a
million ''ready for adoption"
Grand Gil army bean soup is liked
by patriotic leading persons.
Hog cholera Is bulling the pork
market in some Ohio counties.
--BluffIon, o., parties viii plunge
into incubation on large scale.
An Indian flint plow has been ex-
humed in an Ashtabula, o., field
Fremont, o., has struck well
which is called a good ''gasser."
AT a Franklin, Ind, baby show,
one of the prizes was for intellect.
The French government costs 4G3,
OOO francs, or about 800, 600 an hour.
Before next June a statue of Miles
Standish will frown on Boston people.
jay Gould has bought a pew In a
New York Presbyterian Church for
$1,000.
Senator Hearst, Of California, is
said tn have an income OF S75O,OOO per
year.
Jesse L. Williams, a Fort Wayne,
Ind, millionaire, left $4,000 to local
charities.
Fire losses Tor November in the
United states and Canada, aggregate
S10,O0O,OO0.
The shTinkaGe in national bank
circulation during this year IS put at
$50, ,000,000.
Francis Palms, the Detroit multi
millionaire, left only $1,000 for chari-
table purposes
Mrs. James G.. Fair not only got a
divorce. but she got $4,000, 900 of her
husbands money.
Mrs. Langtry's first investment on
this trip, was Sl1,G COO in a New York
real estate mortgage,
Mary Harper, a Cleveland servant
girl, has inherited $3.50, 600 from a rela-
tive in Philadelphia.
Capitalists in Australia are talking
| of laying cable TO British Columbia at
a cost Of Sl0.0UO,0O0.
Andrew Carnegia has decided not to
build his 81 900, eco castle on the noun
tain near Johnstown, Pa.
1t is believed that the Chinese in
CaliforRia "saiG'' from 81. CC0 70 Sz,UUU
In silver dollars every week.
Queen Victoria IS thinking of re-
storing Col. Valentine Baker to his old
rank in the British army.
-Ex senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
says he is going 20 prepare lecture on
his experience in the senate.
The silver mills Of Montana repre-
sent an inveStmene Of $4,000, 900, and
mining machinery as much more.
The holders Of the boxes in the
Metropolitan Opera House in New
YORK this season represent 500, 800, 600.
james c. Flood, the California mil
honalre, has just finished a 100000
brown stone house On Mob Hill, San
francisco.
"A clever sTindICr succeeded in
Selling SIS, 900 worth of tickets to an
alleged Patti concert in the City of
Mexico,
Fees paid the lawyers in the Nor
gan will contest in New YOyk, amount
to 100000. The estate Is worth $40,
100000.
The public hss paid for Appleton's
American Cyclopgjia" IN its various
editions. including annual supplements,
nearly S15, 900, coo.
Last year the fruit and farm pro-
duce shipments at St.JOseph and Benton
HarbOr aggregated 81. $50, 600; this year
they reach SL.500,O0J.
A Blair, Seb., banker invested
-, 900 and house and lot in whisky,
which he consumed in eighteen months.
His bank is closed now.
Over 100000 was withdrawn
from the san Francisco savings banks
recently, the owners wanting the money
to speculate in mining Stocks.
"A change Of S mills per ton d mile
In the freight rates current on the
Michigan Central means TO that road
gain in gross earnings Of 100000 a
year.
Pierre LorrllaTd favOrs legacy tax
of 10 per cent. on all fortunes exceeding
$500, 600, which, he says, would not
oppress the heir and could rot be re-
gretted by the dead.
Ballet dancing is 4 pretty good bus
i1ess when you once get the hang Of it.
Thus Maure, the exponent OF TIE Span
lsh fandango, gets $4,000 year,
Rosatti gets $4,000 and Subra $4,000.
The Bavarisn authorities are get
ting money to pay the mad Kings debts
by permitting people to inspect his pal
aces at an admission fee Of > cents.
In this way SI00.U UOO has been realized
already.
Bill Redden, Of Salt Lake, obtained
a Judgment of S20. .OJ0 against the Union
Pacific Railroad Company for injuries
in one of the coal mines owned
by that corporation.
"A heroine OF note is Mss Mary
Dewey, of Vermont, who has started
for eastern Turkey as a missionary, and
who, before reaching her destination,
Will take horseback journey of 800
miles through a barbarOus country.
People who know SO aething of John
Mackay's operations in the mining
market of San Francisco. say that he
$4,000. 900 last week out Of
spectators, who, in defiance of his
advice, went short OF his faYorites.
The applications OF electricity become
more varied every day. Ar-pressure,
heat, steam-pressure aad water stages
at distant points are now recorded by
its use, and now a California electrician
has invented y process whereby gold,
silver and copper can be instantly
smelted by lightning stroke.
an ingenious process for giving silver
surface to iron has recently been devised